Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration! 480
Fetch stonecrop , mixt with cedar and branches of lilac;
This is the lexicographer —this the chemist—this made a grammar of the old cartouches ;
These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas;
This is the geologist—this works with the scalpel—and this is a mathematician.
[23.5]
Gentlemen! to you the first honors always: 485
Your facts are useful and real—and yet they are not my dwelling;
(I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling.)
[23.6]
Less the reminders of properties told, my words;
And more the reminders, they, of life untold, and of freedom and extrication ,
And make short account of neuters and geldings , and favor men and women fully equipt , 490
And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives, and them that plot and conspire.
[23.7]
23.
Endless unfolding of words of ages!
And mine a word of the modern—the word En-Masse .
[23.1]
A word of the faith that never balks ;
Here or henceforward , it is all the same to me—I accept Time, absolutely. 475
[23.2]
It alone is without flaw—it rounds and completes all;
That mystic, baffling wonder I love, alone completes all.
[23.3]
I accept reality, and dare not question it;
Materialism first and last imbuing .
[23.4]
Hurrah for positive science! long live exact demonstration! 480
Fetch stonecrop , mixt with cedar and branches of lilac;
This is the lexicographer —this the chemist—this made a grammar of the old cartouches ;
These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas;
This is the geologist—this works with the scalpel—and this is a mathematician.
[23.5]
Gentlemen! to you the first honors always: 485
Your facts are useful and real—and yet they are not my dwelling;
(I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling.)
[23.6]
Less the reminders of properties told, my words;
And more the reminders, they, of life untold, and of freedom and extrication ,
And make short account of neuters and geldings , and favor men and women fully equipt , 490
And beat the gong of revolt, and stop with fugitives, and them that plot and conspire.
[23.7]
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